Posts by Rookie

  • Hi everyone

    Oscar - stoked you enjoyed the article. There are better places around Green Island and Taiwan itself but it is becoming more barren.


    Isaac - thanks for that practical advice. I'll certainly be giving it a try.


    Cheers

  • Hi everyone

    Thanks for the responses.


    Linghunt thanks for the lead. Peter is a helpful guy.


    Oscar - The conditions I have experienced has been of viz of 3-10m. The temp. ranges from 20 - 25C (according to surf-forecast.com). As for the coral there's plenty...in the shop windows!!! Yup, there's a big market for red coral especially. So I guess thats what happened to all the coral. Makes me mad! Nevertheless there are still some colorful fish about but at the rate these guys fish...not for much longer.


    Treebilly3 - That's similar to my expeience - squeak, pain! Thanks for the netipot advice.


    Dan - thanks for your thoughts and advice.


    Thanks again for this forum. There's still plenty to learn so the journey continues.
    Happy diving

  • Hi everyone

    Hi everyone.


    Coming to you from Taiwan. (expat)
    I've been keen to get stuck in for quite a while, so finally took the plunge.


    I started a few months back and haven't really done too many dives but here's my experience.


    I got myself a 5ft polespear. Well as you can imagine, one has to be kind face to face with anything to get a shot in and anything that comes in that close is going to be small, especially in good viz. This has forced me to practice my stalking skills as the fish are pretty wary of me now. Unfortunately I haven't caught anything of size yet but that doesn't bother me too much because I'm having fun.


    However, something did happen to me that I think is of some significance and think I should share.


    I was out one day and diving to about 10m when all of a sudden I had a sharp pain just behind my eye. I surfaced immediately, to equalise, blow my nose and headed back down after a few minutes surface time. Went down again to a few meters and again, sharp pain. I decided to stop the dive as there was no pain while on the surface. I must have ruptured a blood vessel as I was blowing blood and snot out for a few days after. I haven't dived since.


    I have a few questions I hope some folks can answer. Can anyone advise me on the blood experience?
    Where can I get american shafts for neptonics trigger mech in Taiwan without having to import them?


    Thanks for the forum and happy diving.